The bullpen in a baseball park is the best place for matador training.

I’ll be sitting in bed tonight thinking about the crowd and the energy today. That’s what New York baseball is all about. This is what I want to experience in October.

Denis’ dad and Roberto Clemente were first cousins. Baseball is still our more popular sport in Puerto Rico, but basketball is really catching on.

Baseball players get booed sometimes, but if you get stressed out about it, you can’t perform. In order to grow, you’ve just got to learn to accept it.

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

You just saw, … a Chicago baseball game.

Maybe that’s it. Either that or there was a flaw or defect in the baseball. I hit it hard but … I don’t know if I could take credit for that.

He’s got to suck it up. He’s the best player in baseball and he’s used to doing good. It’s a shame, though. You can see how much this guy wants to win. Every time he...

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell...

He pitched a great game. We hit the ball hard, but right at them. That’s baseball, but we’ll bounce back.

Ortiz is now synonymous with walk-off homers. After all, he hit a total of nine game-ending blasts from 2002-07. And that was just in the regular season. It was his blasts in the 2004 postseason...

October 1976 was the penultimate performance of Bench’s Hall of Fame career. All the early success and awards and accolades thrown in his direction had prepared him for this moment—when the Big Red Machine became...

Yesterday he talked about baseball. Today he played dodgeball.

Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.

The thing I write will be the thing I write.

Deep down, it’s all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.

I’d never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

Baseball does become slow sometimes. It’s totally unnecessary. The – you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is...

Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

Do I wish everybody in baseball had the same amount to spend? Absolutely. At some point, the disadvantage of being a small-market team is that the inefficiencies will be weeded out. Having less than your...

This is as good as it gets when you pitch, play defense and hit the baseball.

That’s the way baseball is, … I wouldn’t say he’s off the radar screen. I’ve been on both ends of it. I’ve been the guy coming up pushing somebody from behind and I’ve been the...

We came to play baseball. Like the slogan says, we speak baseball.

We came out a little flat and sometimes that happens in baseball. It is a sign of a good team that we finally came alive and started swinging the bats when we had to.

There are teams that receive more money from central baseball — between the national television contract and revenue sharing — than what their payroll is. That’s before they sell a ticket or a hot dog...

Open your heart to a baseball team and you’re liable to get it broken.

Troy: Why do we inflict this on ourselves? Ben: Why? I’ll tell you why, ’cause the Red Sox never let you down. Troy: Huh? Ben: That’s right. I mean – why? Because they haven’t won...

I’ve never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

My lifestyle wasn’t great in baseball, and I’m much happier now. After spending three years in the minors, getting a chance to play at Colorado was a dream come true for me.

That’s baseball. The team that doesn’t make mistakes wins the game.

If T. S. Eliot had stayed in St Louis, he would never have held that April was the cruelest month. Well, unless he was a Browns fan.At this moment, in the ragged middle of February,...

When I’m not at work, I put deep conditioner in my hair and wear a baseball cap. I’ll just roll around on the off-days with goop in my hair, and then just rinse it out.

Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The...

Sparky Anderson wasn’t just my favorite manager … he was my mom’s favorite manager.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You...

That makes me happy and gives us something to look forward to down the line. Baseball’s a game that needs players to have repetition before they can get better and a lot of these kids...

It was not a big deal. There’s not a lot of joy in the Rangerdom right now. That’s baseball.

I don’t know if they really knew me, but the guy who was taking us around, said, ‘This guy plays baseball for Cleveland. They thought that was pretty cool.

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you’ve got patience. They’d both be easier for...

If you’re wondering what’s wrong with Fenway Park in the first place, you’re not the only one. Fenway is special precisely because it has what modern stadiums lack: seats that, while often cramped, offer the...

If all we had was Boz, he’d be catching. He’s just the kind of baseball player that can do it all, so we’re real fortunate to have him.

To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer...

When you?re up 9-0 it?s supposed to be easy. But things are rarely easy in college baseball, and from that standpoint I was pleased with the way we came back.

It was a great spectacle. In games like this, baseball wins.

This is about the coolest thing I’ve ever done on a baseball field. I can’t even put it into words.

In my judgment, the reason the vote was taken is a simple one: Baseball and softball are not European sports. The Olympics are Euro-centric and Euro-dominated. I don’t think there’s much more to it than...

You’ve got to be the man to have a major league baseball game stop for you and to have a five-minute tribute and to have five or six curtain calls. That’s when you know you’ve...

That moment, when you first lay eyes on that field — The Monster, the triangle, the scoreboard, the light tower Big Mac bashed, the left-field grass where Ted (Williams) once roamed — it all defines...